Lampedusa Airport guide

Lampedusa Airport sits on the south-eastern side of Lampedusa, the largest of the Pelagie Islands in the Strait of Sicily. The town of Lampedusa is only a short distance away. The island lies closer to Tunisia than to mainland Italy, so the airport is the main year-round link to Sicily. Civil scheduled flights began in 1968. The Italian air force has also kept radar and air detachment facilities on the island since the 1980s.

AST Aeroservizi S.p.A. manages the airport. ENAV provides air traffic control and ENAC regulates it. A single asphalt runway, 08/26, is about 1,800 metres long. A new terminal opened on 21 July 2012 at a cost of about 24 million euros, roughly two-thirds of it funded by the European Union. It has two levels, eight check-in desks, four boarding gates and two baggage belts. The apron holds up to six aircraft.

The airport handled about 349,000 passengers and 7,700 aircraft movements in 2024. Traffic is seasonal and peaks in summer. Regional carrier DAT flies to Palermo, Catania and Trapani all year. Low-cost and leisure airlines add routes to Milan, Naples, Rome, Venice and Verona in the warmer months.